Preface to this Edition
Preface 

1 The Environmental Background: Present and Past
 I The Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
 II The Indo-Malaysian Environment
 III The Pleistocene and Worldwide Changes in the Environment
 IV The Environmental History of The Indo-Malaysian Archipelago during the Pliocene and Pleistocene
 
2 Homo erectus in Sundaland 
 I The Antecedents
 II Homo erectus in Java
 III Homo erectus in Southeast Asia: The Cultural Evidence
 IV Some Conclusions on "Early" Industries

3 Indo-Malaysians of the Last 40,000 Years
 I The Modern Populations of The Indo-Malaysian Region
 II Genetic and Cranial Data on The Differentiation of Indo-Malaysian Populations
 III Ancient Populations of Homo sapiens in The Indo-Malaysian Archipelago

4 Recent Indo-Malaysian Prehistory: According to the Languages 
 I Language Families in Southeast Asia and Western Pacific
 II Some Linguistic Concepts
 III The Major Subgroups of Austronesian
 IV Dating the Austronesian Family Tree
 V Indo-Malaysian Linguistic Prehistory: Some Possibilities
 VI The Papuan Languages and their Relationships with Indonesia

5 The Patterns of History and Ethnography
 I The Hunters and Gatherers
 II The Influences of India and Islam
 III The Indo-Malaysian Traditional Agricultural Societies
 IV Other Ethnographic Features of Austronesian Societies
 V The Comparative Reconstruction of Early Austronesian Society

6 The Hoabinhians and Their Island Contemporaries
 I Peninsular Malaysia and Mainland Southeast Asia: The Hoabinhian and Its Predecessors
 II Island Southeast Asia: The Later Pebble and Flake Industries, with Variations
 III The Flake and Blade Technocomplex of the Mid-Holocene

7 The Archaeological Record of Early Austronesian Communities 
 I The Origins of Agriculture
 II The Beginnings of Austronesian Prehistory
 III The Neolithic Phase in Island Southeast Asia and Western Oceania
 IV An Integrated View of Early Austronesian Expansion
 V The Stages of Austronesian Agricultural Prehistory

8 The Archaeological Record of Early Agricultural Communities in Peninsular Malaysia
 I The Significance of the Ban Kao Culture and the Malay Peninsular Neolithic

9 The Early Metal Phase: A Protohistoric Transition toward Supra-Tribal Societies 
 I The Dong Son Culture of Northern Vietnam
 II The Sa Huynh Culture of Southern Vietnam
 III The Role of India
 IV Bronze Artifacts of Dong Son and Local Styles from the Sunda Islands and Peninsular Malaysia
 V The Slab Graves and Iron Industry of Peninsular Malaysia
 VI The Early Metal Phase in Sumatra, Java, and Bali
 VII The Early Metal Phase in East Malaysia and Eastern Indonesia

A Final Overview 

Notes 
References
Index 
Plates
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